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Jesu Christo it’s been ages since Ive posted anything here. School has really been kicking my ass hard. Ive had absolutely no time to myself in the last 5 months! Shee, I feel like if I take even the time to Fap off Im wasting time I should be spending on an essay!
Anyways, things are progressing along, and I have a total of 3 assignments, and 6 blog posts to finish and I am done for the semester! YAY! I bought a Honda Del Sol to screw around with, and man has that thing been a money pit, of my $7.5k that I had in February, Im down to almost 3k! Thats quite a bit.
I dont have a job, anymore. Im next in line for a position with the county, but so many people returned from last year that they have no room for me. THe boss woman swears though that if anyone leaves/gets fired I’m next. We’ll see how that goes. False hope is still hope eh? Our gov’t thinks so atleast. And it seems to work for most of America! Yay!

Anyways I really should be getting back to my essays. Need to reflect on my educational career thus far, which means I need to make up a bunch of teacher glorifying bullshit to stroke their egos. Im too tired for this. I need a year off! Heh.

Im still arting, and my website will be updated to reflect this shortly! Keep tuned! All one of you that read this! Heh, Ciao ciao.

Christmas time is always such a shitty time, it seems. Im convinced its New York.
A year ago, a week before Christmas, my Grandmother passed on. It made Christmas difficult. There is no joy when a loved one dies, no matter where you look for it. It is not to be found. This year, the day before Christmas, our dog, Sheba, came down with an insane fever. Christmas Eve, she was taken to a vet, who advised we should remove her ovaries. Dad thought the man was a con artist, as she was eating snow that had road salt in it, and her symptoms seemed like those of someone poisoned by the sodium and potassium chlorides. Christmas day, she was doing better, and even ate. The day after however she fell worse, and we took her to a different vet, who confirmed that she had a disease of the ovaries that causes them to inflame, and sometimes rupture. We were lucky they didnt. She had emergency surgery that saved her life, but the holiday was tense.
Then, sadly, just days before new years, the son of friends of the family was struck and killed by a van on Long Island, where he lived. The guy driving was a volunteer firefighter, so of course he got no ticket, no blame whatsoever. The boy was 18 years old, and his life ended in a day. He had severe head trauma. His parents are devastated, as they should and would be. It was truly a sad sad thing.
I cannot imagine the grief one must feel when they have to bury their child.
That night, too, was my cousin’s sweet sixteen. She looked very pretty in her dress, and I think that that night was the most she had ever spoken with me. Odd how Ive known her since she was born, but she was always so shy she would never speak to me.
We didnt get home until 3am that night. I came home and found that my freshly installed Thermaltake liquid cooling kit had failed. Yep. After being installed for only about 50 hours, the pump leaked into itself and shorted out. The voltage shock told the PSU to shut down. My Motherboard, earlier that day had failed to update its BIOS correctly, and when it shorted out and powered down, was left without a brain.
Long story short, my PC died while I was at a funeral.
But from destruction comes creation. Expensively of course. I’ve purchased a new motherboard and processor, ram, heatsink and PSU. Building a new Intel Core i7 system using the 920 Nehalem chip. The board Im buying is from eVGA. Ive been reading a lot, and theirs seem to be the best boards. However they are nVidia fanboys at eVGA. They had no boards that suported ATi’s CrossfireX platform. Since I have a 3870, and like that I can pay a lot less money for ATi cards than I can for nVidias and get really good performance, this had always been a point of apprehension. Fortunately, the new i7’s use the new Intel X58 chipset, which natively supports both SLi and CrossfireX. I was very happy to read that. It helped me decide. Even though I am spending nearly a grand on this new setup, it should be futureproof for atleast 3 new technology cycles.
Lessons learned:

• Holidays are a time where bad things always seem to happen.
• Good people have bad things happen to them far too often.
• Life is so very random. Theres no order, no accountability, no method to who lives and who dies, or why.
• That is scary.
• Do not buy Thermaltake for liquid cooling purposes, unless you need to have an excuse to upgrade your current hardware.
• Liquid cooling is a great thing, it can keep your system very cool, and do it without making nearly any noise. But dont expect to have a decent system (even just a CPU loop) for under 200.00 US. If you do get something for less, expect it to fail, hard, and fast.

It has been a really really long time since I posted anything here. I am regretful of that. However this last week and a half… really 2 weeks have been a lot of stress. Ive had 4 10-15 page papers to do, plus Christmas shopping, which still isnt done, and dealing with company over the house… and to top it all off its freaking snowing!

I regret that I wasnt able to keep my word to Leslie that I’d see her before she moved. It doesnt seem like Ill be able to if this weather keeps at it, since shes going away on Monday. :{

Im sorry Leslie. Ill miss you, even though I only knew you for a very short time. I realized while I was about to pass out in bed on Thursday night that it was in fact Thursday and I had missed the night that the girls had had planned. Since I didnt have classes on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, I had already forgotten what day it was. And today it began to snow as I was going to get gas in Jersey (cause its like 50 cents cheaper per gallon there)!

Speaking of snow, my father is mad, yet again, that we didnt go out and shovel the snow while it was still snowing. Maybe its just me but I prefer to wait for it to stop first, but he likes to make sure that hes always doing something and always gets mad at me and my brother when we dont. Not to mention that if we do he will find something to fault. Last year when I went outside, while sick, to shovel while they were out, and he came back, he actually got mad at me for not shoveling the street! Hello? We have plow service, this is New York! So he was mad at me for 3 days, and I was mad at him for being mad at me for 4 days. And thats how these things always seem to go. He’ll find something to complain about soon enough, but god forbid I complain about something he does, then suddenly everyone is picking on him.

Like this article. Rant, really. And I guess this is the second journal entry where I am complaining about something he did, but really I complain because he blows everything out of proportion and holds the grudges for way too long.

And now Im ending it. No more about that here. Ive still got holiday shopping to do tomorrow and Sunday… maybe Monday and Tuesday as well. ugh! stress!

Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah, Kwanzaa if you are of the persuasion…

Well the semester is finally nearing it’s end. I have 1 large paper for America and Vietnam that is likely around 10 pages long to do. I do not know, though, for the preofessor is the vaguest man on earth, and has laid out no guidline for what he wants on the paper. (Nor any other paper he ever assigned…)
I have a 6-9 page paper for Adolescent Development, and another 10 pager for Modern European Social History. Then a mock letter to our saviour Obama for Social Foundations of Education, praising his leadership and asking for help in changing schools into a human rights lovefest. Even before he takes office. He’s just that amazing.

And when that’s over, hooray, a month off! (Except for jury duty, eew.)

I’ve gotten my placement for fieldwork, and its near my home, so I wont have to commute. Except to go to New Paltz, that is. I will have to commute there, but only Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Which will be really nice. Thursdays and Fridays every week will be time for me to get work done! Oh it’ll be a blessing to have less work (words I may regret.)

Oh and everyone give Slyth a nice happy bupp, he’s now the proud owner of snakepants.bluescalie.net

Snakepants. Because thats cute. :3

Ciao ciao for now!

Wow. I cant believe a week has passed since I last made a topic.
Well. Through Zyreist/Quetzalcoatl/Glowinthedark[insertrandomanimalhere] I am a member of ArtSpots. A clean gallery environment in order to hopefully get critiques on my artwork, and help me grow into a better artist.

Also, Woo, Thanksgiving soon! Classes are out for like 6 days for me, and even though I have a large essay to do in that time, it’ll be a nice break again!
It’s colder than a witch’s bosom, as well, so this cold blood is going to keep this entry short and hopefully Ill have more to say next time! :3

Oh, also made a new drawing, its on my gallery now, and even though my laptop decided against allowing me to use pressure sensitivity I think it came out well. Cheer(io)s!